PugJesus@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoDon't worry, it's definitely not genocide, China is just being a little 'authoritarian' towards the Uyghurslemmy.worldimagemessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageDon't worry, it's definitely not genocide, China is just being a little 'authoritarian' towards the Uyghurslemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square37linkfedilink
minus-squareRunawayFixer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThe meme checks out: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/population-birth-rate-by-region/cn-population-birth-rate-xinjiang . Birth rate was 1.588 in 2017 and at a similar level in the years before that, 1.069 in 2018, 0.814 in 2019 and so on. Extra surveillance and repression reportedly started in 2014, mass incarceration in 2017.
minus-squarediscocactus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIdk, if you educate women the fertility rate usually drops, so it stands to reason if you reeducate them it’d drop even further…
minus-squareDupaCycki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoSo they just built a lof of universities and accepted women free of charge. So generous! We should follow their example.
The meme checks out: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/population-birth-rate-by-region/cn-population-birth-rate-xinjiang . Birth rate was 1.588 in 2017 and at a similar level in the years before that, 1.069 in 2018, 0.814 in 2019 and so on.
Extra surveillance and repression reportedly started in 2014, mass incarceration in 2017.
Idk, if you educate women the fertility rate usually drops, so it stands to reason if you reeducate them it’d drop even further…
So they just built a lof of universities and accepted women free of charge. So generous! We should follow their example.